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    <h3>surplus</h3>
	<p>During the work on the series „Surplus“, many people asked me if
you really can compare War with our western consumer society. But it
never was my intention to compare.</p>
<p>War is a term that people from my generation understand, and we
connect it to suffering, death, crime and mainly to violence. But just a
few people, after World War 2, in the western world have experienced
war. Our knowledge of war is based on Information from different
news agencies.
Also In our western world a war is going on. A war of Trademarks,
brands and conglomerates in other words a war of consumerism. The
Victims of that war are the consumers.
Artifi cial consumer needs are made to create constantly buying
Consumers. The Consumer falls into a dependency with his income
to buy things he really doesn’t need. It is hard to ignore and resist the
psychological manipulation. In a neo-liberalistic elbow society everybody
is in competition with each other.Life is a walk on a thin red line
between „Lifestyle“ and success orientation.
I used photographic war icons to visualize these circumstances of the
modern western Lifestyle.</p>
<p>By not showing but only referring to iconic images one becomes aware
of how powerful pictures are that already “made history”, but have
become part of our visual culture.</p>
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